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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AM) COTTAGE GARDENER. 



t April 25, 1867. 



quality nre to be had. Hothouse Grapes and Strawberries are coming in 

 in large quantities for the season. The best Potatoes are 10«. per ton 

 clearer. 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus biindlo 



Beans, Kiduc.v, per luO 



SearletRun-i sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Bms. Sprouts \ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Caoliflovrer doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers eiu-h 



pickliug .... doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fezmel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Hoi-seradish ,. bundle 



Apples ^ sieve 



Apricots doz 



Cherries box 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants ^ sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Gooseberries . . quart 

 Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 

 Lemons 100 



B. d. B. 



6 too 







1 

 



2 

 2 







1 

 

 6 



Leekg bunch 



Lettuce per doz. 



Mushrooms .... pottle 

 Mu8td.& Cress, punnet 

 Onions... . per bushel 



Parsley per sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes per doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable Marrows dz. 



d. 

 3 too 



2 



2 



9 



9 



4 



6 

 







FBDIT. 



. d. B. d 



2 OtoS 

 



























9 







10 



10 





 

 

 

 

 



1 





 

 



Melons each 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 



Peaches doz. 



Pears (dessert) .. doz. 



kitchen doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 



B. d. 6. d 



OtoO 

 



Plums i sieve 



Quinces doz. 



RaspbeiTies lb. 



Strawberries oz. 



10 











4 



8 















1 



Walnuts bush. 10 20 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



••• We request that no one will wi-ite privately to tlie depart- 

 mental writers of the "Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiahle trouble and expense. All 

 communications should therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticxdmre, d-c, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.G. 



Books (Co&7ta»0.— There is no such book at present. We shall publish 

 one nest year. {A Constant Eeadcrj.—'Wo have a book full of plans now 

 printing. 



Seedlings (F. H,). — The Coleus seedlings are rich in colour, but can- 

 not be judged of from a single leaf any more than can a seedling Verbena 

 or a seedling Pelargonium from a single pip. 



Soda for Manuhe (Mar tyn). —Your discoloured washing soda may be 

 applied to the ground intended to be planted with Potatoes, or sprinkled 

 between the rows of Cabbages, between Sea-kale plants, or on Asparngu^- 

 beds. One pouud to 30 square y.irds will be sufficient. 



DRiraKENNEss.— " My gardener, I begin to fear, is a ' neer-do-weel.' 

 He has a wife and three tine children, and is a most trustworthy, strong, 

 active, clever yotmg man, who thoroughlv understands bis business, and 

 whom evei-y one in the village respects when he is himsell; but he is 

 easily led away by his own ' chums.' I am never sure of him, and he fre- 

 quently gets thoroughly drunk. I have a good garden, about 40 yards 

 long by 20, with a most excellent modern greenhouse, and was seriously 

 thinking of engaging him for my permanent and first gardener ; but this 

 is only his second week, and he has been off two clear days already. 

 Would you recommend me to try him again ?— J. P." 



Jit is too serious a responsibility for us to accept, and we cannot say 

 Discard liim, for if you do, and give' his true character, no .)ne will engage 

 hun ; but we have small hope that you will be able to keep him. If a 

 man, who knows that drunkenness ends invariably in ruined health, 

 impoverished family, and the contempt of everv one whose good opinion 

 IS desirable— if a man, notwithstanding, runs even the risk of drunken- 

 ness, it is such a pro6f of self-indulgence being preferred to all other 

 considerations, that we never expect him to stop until he dies of delirium 

 tremens and his family are beggared.— Eds.] 



'^i'^.^?'^^^^ Garden Planting (Constant Header, Cork).— Vfe hay e 

 no doubt that the plan you prop.tse will answer verv well ; and we hardly 

 know how to advise you ns to improving it unless Ve knew which part 

 yon wished to continue longest in bloom. The main part, which consists 

 ol two semicucular beds, making an oval, with the space between, and 

 lonr beds round the oval, with straight lines on the outside, we would 

 recommend to bo planted %vith those plants that will stand for the season, 

 instead of, as now, being partly filled with Calceolarias ; and other beds 

 with mixed Candytufts, which will only be a few weeks at their best. 

 Thus, suppose ynu planted your two pointed semicircles (bat which, by 

 filling up the middle pathway, we would change into an oval), with bright 

 ecaxlet IVlnrgoniums in the centre, yellow Calceolarias roimd, and a band 

 of blue Lobelia outside ; then of your other four clumps we would pair 

 them on the cross, say two beds of Cerise Unique with Heliotrope for an 

 edging, and two beds of Bijou Pelargonium with variegated Alyssum for 

 an edging ; or the Verbenas you have, if you hke them better," might be 

 [ound Bijou, with a string of Cerastium next the pathway. The five 

 beds then would stand the season ; and you might edge all your little 

 fiqnaro beds at the sides with the different Cerastiums, and in them plant 

 *°5 Candytufts, Asters, Saponarias, &c. ; and if a bed went off, you could 

 either replenish it, or, if a little seedy, it would not mar the general 

 effect, which your mixed Candytufts, Asters, &c., dying off in the six 

 central clumps would certainlv do. 



Planting Vine Borders {O. I. B.).— The chief injurj- done to Vine 

 borders by planting them with flowers is, that the son has little or no 

 direct access to i\m border. We always advise not to plant them; but 

 many in this respect go against their convictions. A skliting of Migno- 

 nette, Ac, in front does Uttle harm. 



Pear Leaves Eaten by Caterpillars (TT. F.).— Dust the leaves 

 thoroughly with white hellebore powder. 



Treatment of Czar Violet after Flowering (J. fl". K,).— Presum- ' 

 iug it to be in a put in a cool house or frame, remove the plant after 

 flowering to a shady border, and plant it out in a compost of rich turfy 

 loam with a Uttle leaf mould. If the plant is large and capable of in- 

 crease, the runners may bo slipped off, placed in small pots filled with a 

 compost of sandy loam and a little mould, and set in a cold frame. 

 Keep the plants rather close and shaded imtil they are established, . 

 then remove them to a shady but open situation, and plunge the pots to 

 the rims. When the pots are full of roots shift into larger pots— say 

 44 inches in diameter, using the same compost as before, and in July 

 shift into six-inch pots, using a compost of turfy loam two-thirds, and 

 one-third leaf mould, with a free admixture of shai-p sand. The plants 

 should be well watered overhead and at the root, especially during dry 

 weather, and this treatment should be continued throughout the summer, 

 avoiding anything approaching to a saturated or sour soil, of which they 

 are very impatient. They may remain out of doors, the pots being 

 plunged to the rim in coal ashes in a sheltered situation, or, better, in a 

 cold pit or frame, iirotection being afforded from severe frost. You may 

 turn out the plants as already mentioned in a sheltered, shady situation, 

 previously dividing them and planting the divisions C inches apart every 

 way, and keeping them shaded until estabhshed. They ought to be kept 

 moist and be frequently watered overhead. Towards the end of Septem- 

 ber you may take the plants up with balls of earth, and place them in 

 well-drained six-inch pots, or any size large enough to hold them welL ; 

 Place them in a frame, and remove them as required to an airy shell , 

 in the greenhouse. 



RiDDELL's Slow -combustion Boiler {Idem).~lt is eflScient, and as ; 

 economical as any boiler of its kind. 



Cinerarias Flagging (£. 1'.).— We think the flagging of the plants is 

 caused by the compost being much too rich, and the roots being injured, 

 the plants would flag under bright sun. We would advise your employing 

 in future a compost of turfy loam from rotten turves two-thirds, and one- 

 third leaf mould, adding one-sixth sharp sand, but no manure. We think 

 if you use this rough, provide good drainage, and afford a Ught and airy 

 situation, you will be more successful in f utm-e. 



Vinery Aspect (J. H. H.). — The south side of your wall will do very 

 well for a vinery, and the same aspect will answer for oblique cordon- 

 trained Peaches under glass. The other side will do for Pears, but not 

 for a vinery or Peach wall. The hardier kinds of Pears only should be 

 planted against it. It would alsu do admirably for Morello Cherries. ' 

 The south-east side would also grow Plums and Cherries. 



IIardy Basket pLANTS(7sfl).— There are few plants that are hardy in ■ 

 hanging baskets ; they should have protection in winter, as their roots 

 perish on exposure to severe frost. Polygonum complexum, P. vacclni- 

 foUum, Antirrhinum liuariie folium, Saxifraga japonica, ti. sarmentosa, 

 Seduni Sieboldi and its variegated form; Linaria cymbalaria, its variety 

 alba, and the variegated form ; Lysimachia nummiilaria, Lotus cornicu- 

 latus flore pleno. Campanula garganica, C. Barlerii, C. muralis, Convol- 

 vulus mauritauicus, C. tenuissimus, Mikania scandens, Bisandra pro- 

 strata, variegated Vinca elegantissima, aud the gold and silver variegated- 

 leaved I\'ies. 



Evergreen Oak Injured by Frost (R.'Capper). — All you can do is to 

 cut off the head of the tree immediately above the living part, and train 

 any well-situated shoot as leader. 



CoRREA Potting {W. A. O.).— Now is a good time to pot it, draining 

 the pot well, and using a compost of two-thii-ds turfy sandy peat, and 

 one-third sandy loam, with a free admixtui-e of silver sand. It ia well 

 not to give large shifts ; a pot 1\ to 2 inches larger than that in which it 

 is potted is suthcieutly large. 



Daphne indica Potting [Idem). — The present is a good time to repot 

 this plant, hut it flowers more freely when the roots are confined. 



Fertilising Aucuba Flowers (Idevi).-~li a flowering plant of the 

 variegated kind were placed beside a male plant it would iu all probability 

 have the flowers impregnated ; but, to make sure, the pollen of the male 

 should bo applied with a camel-hair pencil to the stigma of the female. 

 The pollen will keep a long time — if kept dry for many weeks, but we do 

 not think it will continue good until the following year. The flowers 

 should be fully open when the pollen is applied. 



Lapageria rosea Propagation (Idiin). — It is raised from seed and 

 propagated by suckers, layers, and cuttings of the half-ripened wood, 



Bougaintill:ea glabra {A Subscriber).— The Bougainvillffia is not 

 easily flowered in this country, there being a majority of non-flowering 

 plants compai'ed with the flowering. The books are right. 



STANHOPEA OCCLATA,CaTTLEYA CITRINA, and ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE 



Culture (Orchid). — We fear j'ou have not accommodation for the growth 

 of these plants. The Stanhopea and Cattleya will not thrive in a green- 

 house, nor will the Odontoglossnm if the house is as airy as greenhouses 

 generally are and should be. They ^vill do very well if you convert your 

 greenhouse into a close house, aud keep it warm during the period the 

 plants are making and perfecting their growth, and iu winter they will 

 do well in the temperature of a greenhouse if the atmosphere is dry. 

 Keep the air of the house moist and the plants moist at the root — 

 whether they are in baskets, on blocks of wood, or in pots, the compost 

 should bo moist — syringing them twice a-day or ufteuer, and the 

 atmosphere should be kept moist by frequently sprinkling the floors, 

 walls, &c. This treatment should be continued from the commencement 

 of growth imtil it is perfected ; then reduce the amount of moisture, and 

 keep dry in winter. Vo not overwater at first, but increase moisture 

 with the increase of growth, and leave it off gradually. 



Climber fob the Back Wall of a Greenhouse (M. H. i;.).— We do 

 not know of anything that would thrive so well as, and look better than 

 the gold and silver variegated Ivies, or you may have the variegated 

 variety of Cobiea scaudous ; but the Ivies would look much better, as- 

 sociated as they would be with rockwork. The small-leaved kinds only 

 should be planted. 



